Environmentalists are at the heart of the green wave that swept across France during the second round of municipal elections. Often young and committed before their political career, these elected officials will have to prove themselves.
In Lyon, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Poitiers and even Annecy, the new mayors elected in the municipal elections are shaking up the political landscape and putting their finger on Emmanuel Macron's challenge for the end of the five-year term: embodying change.
The environmentalists have indeed stolen the mistigri from the macronists: the new mayors represent a new political generation which arrives at the helm of local authorities. And we talk about them as we talked about LREM three years ago, these walkers who were going to change politics. Unlike many LREM members, these elected environmentalists are not novices, they often have political experience.
If they did not mature in ministerial cabinets, they grew up in associations or NGOs. As is the case for Gregory Doucet, the mayor of Lyon from the humanitarian sector or Léonore Montcond'huy, the very young mayor of Poitiers, aged 30 and engaged in scouting before joining EELV. Finally, this is the case of the discreet Jeanne Berseghian in Strasbourg, a specialist in environmental law.
So many new faces that are clearly on the left and that have turned socialist software. And besides, nobody talks about socialism anymore, we are now talking about social ecology or united ecology. These whistleblowers want to do away with figuration.
So now is the time for reality. Political ecology is beginning to change and will have to prove itself because the management of a city is a school of pragmatism often far removed from the great debates on the future of the planet.